Although progress has been made in Somalia’s electoral process, it has been slow and uneven, the UN Special Representative for the country said in...
Anxiety in Afghanistan as Taliban struggles for legitimacy
Despite a crisis of trust both within the country and abroad, three months after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, it is taking halting...
How missing data makes it harder to measure racial bias in policing
From 2012 to 2015, a team of researchers collected 2.9 million police officer patrol records in Chicago. The team’s analysis of that data, from...
Antimicrobial Resistance Calls for Brainpower of a Space Agency and Campaigning Zeal of an NGO
Nov 17 (IPS) – The cost of infectious diseases is somewhere between staggering and incalculable. Around $8 trillion and 156 million life years were...
Double Solution to Ongoing Food and Climate Crises
NAIROBI, Nov 17 (IPS) – For the last ten years, Angeline Wanjira’s food stall at Kirigiti Market in Kiambu County has featured the same...
New Report Exposes Americas Color-Blind Legal System
NEW YORK, Nov 17 (IPS) – Once again, the U.S. faces a test case along racial lines. Will the courts mete out justice in...
An ancient exploding comet may explain why glass litters part of Chile
Scattered across a swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile lie twisted chunks of black and green glass. How the glass ended up there,...
Why Covid-19 Misinformation Works
SANTIAGO, Nov 17 (IPS) – At the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used his allotted time at the...
Sensitizing public opinion to the question of Palestine, and promoting a peaceful settlement to the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, are among the goals of the 2021 UN...
A new Iranian law that raises the prospect of the death penalty for abortion has been condemned by independent human rights experts, who have...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
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